Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "CBC News: The National" channel.

  1.  @justintrudoo  Since when did socialism support mass immigration?
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  2. What about the property taxes, repair and maintenance costs and insurance premiums?
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  3. Can't blame the landlords when there are people willing to pay those rents.
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  4.  @atesah  <people are entitled however to have shelter> No they're not. Terms and conditions exist for a reason.
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  5. <Wage stagnation is also a problem factor here…> And currency devaluation.
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  6. <They don't care about renters.> Why should they? They don't owe renters anything.
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  7. They do especially as they were the ones who took on the legal and financial risks of ownership.
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  8. <Food and shelters are basic living essentials.> But you're still not entitled to them. Neither are you entitled to demand that someone else provide it against his/her will for free if not at a steep discount.
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  9. <Hearing a landlord complain that the tenant is not paying rent shows that the landlord does not understand the relationship between incomes and rents and as such I have no sympathy for these people> Just like tenants don't understand that the rising rents are a consequence of rising costs to keep the rental unit operational. The property and land taxes, mortgages and interest rates, utility costs, repair and maintenance, insurance, etc.
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  10.  @atesah  Yet you still wouldn't be able to afford it anyway.
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  11.  @Doraemonhandle  It never really was. That's why in most cities in the world, the poor live on the outskirts.
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  12.  @finn6988  Housing is not a right. There's a reason why landlords and property-owners don't rent or sell to just anyone.
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  13. And public housing = slums.
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  14. How? A lot of jobs cannot be done remotely.
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  15. But most won't because the other places are not as desirable. It's either Toronto, Vancouver or bust.
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  16.  @timber543  Translation: nowhere else they deem appealing.
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  17. But the Liberal/NDP-voters moving in from Ontario are trying to change all that.
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  18.  @MedicalAutonomyProject  They barely even pay the existing doctors.
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  19. 1) For what? Living in a place you can't afford is not a right. Either pay up or move out to somewhere you can afford. 2) Meaning higher taxes for everyone else to support it putting some in poverty in the process.
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  20. And tenants are entitled losers. You don't have the right to live in a place you can't afford.
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  21. Not really. Federal and provincial governments are part of the problem.
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  22.  @A99-b6h  The poster didn't come from privilege.
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  23. Entitled tenant.
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  24.  @Deruwugen  Says who?
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  25. @The Great Gazoo Who's the right people?
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  26.  @rebeccahillsares8253  < but people are suffering. > Some of them by their own doing.
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  27. <Like Finland we could through the Canada Pension Fund > And leave people without a pension by the time they reach eligibility age.
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  28. Just like no sympathy for tenants. Step your budgeting game up.
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  29.  @TheClownWorldShow  Pretty much. Also conservative politicians. Yet the cities they're complaining about not being able to afford to live in are as liberal/left-wing as they come.
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  30. Government restrictions.
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  31. Raised by Boomers and Gen-Xers.
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  32. <Tenants have a right to housing > But landlord have the right to set the terms and conditions housing will be provided under.
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  33. Due to construction costs, permit fees, etc.
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  34. Because due to local zoning laws, those are the only high-density housing they're legally allowed to build in the city.
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  35. <Housing is a human right.> Says who? <Tenants have rights.> So do landlords. <It is not a human right for arseholes like the big landlord in this story to make more money.> Actually yes it is as he was the one who put up the money to buy the property.
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  36.  @MentionBiscuit  How about buy your own place?
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  37. <renters cannot.> They should have save some of their money and bought the property themselves. It's not the landlords' fault that a lot of renters rather party and BS barely getting by than invest in their own futures.
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  38. Canada is finding out the hard way like Sweden it cannot have a welfare state and open borders at the same time. The Gulf states have welfare but it's restricted to citizens, namely ethnic locals only.
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  39.  user-dx5em7om4t  And probably vote for the same kind of politicians and policies that caused her/his son to flee Ontario.
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  40. Empathy doesn't pay utility bills, insurance premiums, repair and maintenance fees, mortgage or property taxes.
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  41. Enabled and facilitated by even greedier governments.
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  42.  @mauriceharting5877  And left countless countries including Russia bankrupt.
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  43.  @mauriceharting5877  <It requires politicians and the public sector to sacrifice some of their financial advantages when compared to the private sector by lowering their salaries with the result of lowering taxes> And laying off public-sector workers.
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  44. Black people need to think beyond just being workers and renters always at the mercy of others.
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  45.  @minoozolala  And tenants are incredibly entitled. Always wanting more than they're willing to pay.
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  46. Zoning restrictions. And the fact that Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver are where the jobs at.
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  47. The rich save and invest while the poor spend all they have.
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  48.  @katherinespencer2073  Exactly.
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  49. Corporations are the reason why the country has a middle class.
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  50. South and East Asians.
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